Voices of change: International Women's Day

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Voices of change: International Women's Day

Strikes, marches, stories. Women make change in many ways. Every day we are surviving and resisting, and on 8 March of every year we come together to celebrate our hard work and use our collective power to initiate changes that further cement women's human rights.

We're going to spend the day celebrating women who use tech for change. Join us on Twitter with #takebackthetech and let us know about the women and gender-variant folks using tech for activism in your community. Who is developing new tools? Who is using tech in creative ways? Who is helping us stay safe online? What are the smartest, most creative, funniest and most outrageous ways you've seen a woman or non-binary person use tech for justice?

In addition, we've put together a list of actions Take Back the Tech! campaigners and partners are planning for International Women's Day. These actions help women feel safe enough to use their voices, uplift women's stories, and create a chorus that rings through the streets. They are spread out in multiple countries, so even though it's impossible to participate in all of them, you can see what's going on in places like Mexico, India and Lebanon and feel like your voice is part of that greater chorus.

Strike, march and share online and on-ground. Sing out for change. Take back the tech!

The Women's Manifesto is a document of Malaysian women's demands from 10 thematic areas, endorsed by various movements in support of gender equality. The demands are towards the creation of a more enabling environment for the respect, promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights on the basis of gender equality.

Latin America and the Caribbean | Website launch: Ciberseguras | Month of March

Organised by a network of feminist and tech activists from Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico
Trainings and activities in different countries throughout March to celebrate the launch of the new site on digital security from a feminist perspective.